Just war on terror?
Subtitle: a Christian and Muslim response
By: edited by David Fisher and Brian Wicker
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781409408079; 9781409408086; 9781409408093
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-223) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A clash of civilisations? / David Fisher and Brian Wicker; title: Pt. 1. The role of religion in shaping terrorism and the responses to it. Terrorism and Islamic theologies of religiously-sanctioned war / Tim Winter; title: Challenging Al-Qa'ida's justification of terror / Ahmad Achtar; title: Challenging the political theology of America's 'War on terror' / Richard Lock-Pullan; title: Pt. 2. Responding to the terrorist threat. Philip Bobbitt's Terror and consent : a brief critique / Michael Howard; title: Just war and state sovereignty / Brian Wicker; title: Terror and pre-emption : can military pre-emption ever be just? / David Fisher; title: How much of our liberties and privacy do we need to give up for public security? / David Omand; title: Pt. 3. New ways to counter the threat. Just wars, just outcomes : reconciling just outcomes in military intervention / Shenaz Bunglawala, Rosemary Durward and Paul Schulte; title: 'Eating soup with a knife' : counterinsurgency and just war / Hugh Beach; title: Going off the reservation into the sanctuary : cross-border counter-terrorist operations, fourth generation warfare and the ethical insufficiency of contemporary just war thinking / Paul Schulte; title: Countering the threat of nuclear terrorism / Nick Ritchie; title: Pt. 4. Afterword : concluding reflections. A re-emphasis more than a reply / Philip Bobbitt; title: Countering terrorism justly : reflections nine years after 9/11 / David Fisher and Brian Wicker.